Julia Roberts vs. the Paparazzi

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

In a rare turn of events actress Julia Roberts is making headlines for pursuing photographers instead of the other way around.

In video that is making the rounds on the Internet, the Oscar winner is shown wildly tailing two videographers in her Mercedes SUV, flagging them down and basically trying to run them off the road in an effort to give them a piece of her mind.

The footage was captured by freelance videographers for a celebrity news agency and broadcast on the Internet and on TV's "Inside Edition." It shows an irate Roberts driving her Mercedes behind a car filled with photographers, honking and waving them to pull over. While driving, the Academy Award-winning star of "Erin Brockovich" crossed over a double yellow line, though she did not have children in her car.

Once Roberts got the photographers to pull off to the side of the road the video shows her exiting her vehicle and lecturing the paps for taping her near her children's school.

"I'm going to talk to you about the fact that you're at a school where children go. Turn it off," the 40-year-old actress said in the footage while standing outside the photographers' car.

According to "Inside Edition" the incident occurred after photographers followed Roberts to her 3-year-old twins' school. The actress told the TV show that taking her picture is one thing, but a school is "not the place to wait to do it."

What do you make of Roberts' rumble with photographers? Do you think it was warranted?

Frankly, I think she's taking a page out of pal George Clooney's book on how to deal with over the top photographers. You'll recall in a previous blog I detailed the handsome actor's recent run in with paparazzi who came very close to sideswiping him as he rode his motorcycle down a street in Los Angeles.

In that case Clooney pulled over and admonished paps telling them: "You can drive all you want, you can take my picture all you want, but what you cannot do is put people in danger."

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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